The SAP Team built a demo environment that became production

“It's only one container.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Honestly? Because Friday at 11:14 seemed like a reasonable time to deploy. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 411 days ago.

Built by:

Elena, a working student

Build time:

2 evenings

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a Google Sheet with 69,374 rows and 75 tabs

Authentication:

the password is "Password1!" because it meets the policy

Deployment:

hosted on a server shared with 3 unrelated applications

Responsible:

Daniel, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 5 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

the audit log also contains passwords

Future disaster:

It will become the source of truth in 15 months.

Age: 63 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 63 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, 23% chance of becoming business critical, alive 9x longer than intended.